I have faith in the general independent Linux developer landscape that eventually most all games will become compatible, whether AAA Devs want them to be or not.
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What's wrong with Rainbow Six Siege? Theres a kot of annoying players, but I find the game okey-ish.
Unpopular opinion: these memes always have ‘I am very smart’ energy on Lemmy. The issue is that these companies should support Linux not that your personal taste in video games means it’s a good thing that they don’t.
I don’t play any of these particular games but I have other software that doesn’t run on Linux without considerable effort. So I haven’t switched. My best friend has switched and made the changes necessary and is forever troubleshooting issues.
No, no, no - this is all wrong. I don't consider you a person unless you self-flagellate at the terminal daily, compiling from source in dependency hell while being cleansed by the vim fires at the altar of Tux.
This species of Linux user reminds me quite a lot of Catholics.
I read that as “self-felate” and was impressed and horrified that people were that flexible while using the terminal.
I agree with you that these memes are a little silly, but I also agree with the overall point that it's actually good that these games don't run on Linux. It has nothing to do with my personal taste in these games though, and everything to do with privacy violations via kernel-level anticheats, and getting people addicted via dark patterns like microtransactions, gacha, and FOMO-inducing battlepasses.
I built a computer for my uncle and his kids and installed Linux on it. My cousin wanted to play Fortnite, and I tried to pitch it to him as a feature instead of a bug. But a couple weekends ago, I caved and installed dang Windows 11 for him.
It's a meme, I don't think folks are meant to view this as something other than ironic.
I don’t play any of these particular games but I have other software that doesn’t run on Linux without considerable effort.
Anything that isn't a game can typically be run on a virtual machine.
So, the software that runs the features on my mouse and headset run on a VM. Then I play the games in the base OS with those features like software driven surround sound?
This is actually similar to the situation I came across with my friend. “Everything works 100% it’s crazy!” Sweet! How’d you get the customisable mouse buttons working? (He has the same mouse as me) “There are extra mouse buttons? Oh, there are! I never noticed. No, they don’t work anymore”. 😑
Warframe - Linux: ✅️
Conclusion, Linux wins.
I just wish that Vortex or some other mod manager worked on Linux. The amount of black magic I have to do to get mods running is kinda absurd.
Wait, Vortex doesn't work on Linux? Seriously!? God fucking damnit, I'm going to be stuck with Windows forever.
I can't go back to the old days of manually installing and updating mods by hand. Those were some rough times, and I never want to relive them again.
I swear I saw they were going to start working on one
They did then abandoned it for some fucken reason because Nexus will just do that. Hell at this point I'd settle for a Linux fork of the old NMM with collection support since most of the issues with modding Linux is just lack of mod managers.
They abandoned the standalone linux mod manager with the intention of making Vortex itself run on Linux, specifically targeting SteamOS.
You mean to tell me that Genshin Impact is more than just a hentai franchise...?
And let me guess, next you'll say the same thing about Overwatch.
The conclusion is correct but you need to show your work a little more.
I miss peak Destiny 2 tho. It was the only reason I dual booted for many years.
Same, I got in just and the end of the good stuff so didn't have that long to really enjoy it. I did love my time playing but there was so much that made it clear it was only gonna get worse. Seeing Bungie fall like that really sucked, they had been my favorite game dev all the way since halo 1, and look at them now...
You can run Genshin Impact on Linux
Not under my roof
You can, but you shouldn't
speak for yourself
I know a lot of you don't care if these games run or not, but really does suck they don't. I've talked to quite a few people that wouldn't switch to Linux because X game doesn't run on it.
People will always come up with a reason to stay with what they have.
And other people will always come up with a reason you need to leave what you have even if it satisfies your need.
Your personal needs are not the concern. Free the software free the society.
the only times i've had trouble playing a game on linux are when the developer specifically fucks with it so it won't run on linux. the main reason for that is kernel-level anticheat software, which, from what i've heard, doesn't really help with cheating much anyways. my computer is my computer, i don't need microsoft or some game company going into my kernel. can't wait for some drm company to get hacked and have windows gamers up in arms because they got ransomewared.
I think one of the games got hacked via their anticheat and we're able to mess around with other players. I don't remember which one it was though. I don't play any of these games so they all blend together for me
Mechwarrior 2 Titanium trilogy, arguably the best games EVER MADE (fight me, wetnose) doesn't really run on anything beyond Windows 2000. I simply refuse to update to any OS that doesn't retain the functionality of my games.
Yeah this is only a win if you don't play those games. Unfortunately these games are intensely popular and the lack of compatibility stunts the popularity of Linux. I expect there is a similar anti-meme of this list titled "why I'll never install Linux"
Agreed, I switched my gaming rig to Linux for 6 months and was so excited to get things working. Went back to windows on it because I kept going to play with friends, and would often have to mess with Proton versions (again) to get the game working.
I really enjoy the Grounded games, so when Grounded 2's early access was about to release I switched back to avoid dealing with those issues.
Still rocking Linux on my non-gaming devices though, aside from SteamDeck.
Went back to windows on it because I kept going to play with friends,
Shame.
I really enjoy the Grounded games, so when Grounded 2's early access was about to release I switched back to avoid dealing with those issues.
Shame, shame, shame.
What would you recommend I do so that I wouldn't have ran into those issues? Suck it up and keep dealing with the headaches?
I'm no fan of Windows either, but it lets me play games when I want to play them.
Genshin and ZZZ have been running fine from the official installer in a Proton Prefix for years now. They use a different anticheat from the two Honkai games for some reason.
Quite a few of these games are in geforce now and geforce now has an official linux client now
Yo
Huh. GTA online used to work fine? Did they update that?
A few months ago they added BattleEye anti-cheat but didn't enable Proton compat
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